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Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years. If you start with a 2.37 g sample, how much would remain after 17,190 years?

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5,730 years; The graph shows that 50 percent of the carbon-14 atoms have decayed after 5,730 years, so 5,730 is the half-life of carbon-14.

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